View full sizeKevin Ray Baker (left) sits with defense attorney Walter Grant during jury selection in Mobile, Alabama, on Monday, April 1, 2013. A jury on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, found him guilty of four sex-related crimes. (Brendan Kirby/Bkirby@al.com)

The Mobile County Circuit Court jury took about a half-hour this afternoon to decide that Kevin Ray Baker was guilty of all four charges against him – first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and two counts of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12.

The deliberation time was not even long enough to re-watch the February 2012 interview with police, which was more than two hours long. Baker showed no emotion as the jury foreman read the verdict.

“We just thank God justice was served,” the victim’s grandmother said after hearing the verdict.

The woman, who testified during the trial, had tears in her eyes. The victim’s aunt did, as well.

“We’re just happy that justice was done for my niece,” she said. “It’s still hard.”

Mobile County Circuit Judge John Lockett set sentencing for May 2. Baker, 32, faces 20 years to life in prison on the most serious charges.

“Certainly, I will probably ask for the maximum based on the fact that even though he admitted to doing this, he came to court and put (this) child though this,” Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson said.

The Grand Bay man testified earlier today that the admissions he made to Mobile police Detective Launduke Bagsby were lies told to get the investigator off his back. Patterson said it is the first time she has prosecuted a defendant who tried to repudiate his own recorded confession.

Defense attorney Travis Grant said it also was a first-time situation for him. But he said research turned up similar cases. “These type things exist,” he said. “I know it’s hard for people to accept.”

Grant said his client has no criminal record, which he hopes Lockett will take into consideration at sentencing.